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Protect millions of wildlife before Sept. 27 – we need you!

Target: U.S. Dept of the Interior
Sponsored by: The Wilderness Society
As soon as September 27, a very special wild place could be sold to the oil and gas industry – unless we act now!

One of the most important wetland complexes in the Arctic, the Teshekpuk Lake region is essential habitat for millions of birds and tens of thousands of caribou. It is also a stunning sweep of landscape, remarkable even in Alaska where a grand scale is the only scale.

Together, we can get the Interior Department to do the only sensible thing: cancel the September 27 sale of this precious public land.

The sale is imminent! Act quickly before it's too late! Sign this petition to stop the sale of the Teshekpuk Lake region.
deadline: 8-29-2007
goal: 15,000
 

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Dear Secretary Kempthorne,

I am very much opposed to the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) oil and gas activity plan for the Northeast Planning Area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The plan, approved in January 2006, will open 100 percent of the area north and east of Teshekpuk Lake to leasing.

That would not only place the caribou and waterfowl populations there in serious jeopardy but would damage the important subsistence activities of a number of Native villages. The North Slope's residents have expressed strong opposition to the plan. So have sportsmen's groups, scientists, conservationists and the public at large.

The area around Teshekpuk Lake should remain what it is today: an irreplaceable, unbroken, core wildlife habitat for caribou, molting geese and millions of other birds and mammals and a place where generations of Alaska Natives have hunted, fished and pursued their subsistence ways of life.

[your comment here]

I ask you to cancel the lease sale now tentatively planned for September 2006 in the Teshekpuk Lake Surface Protection Area. I also ask you to direct the BLM to protect the full range of the area's values, from subsistence to recreation to the health of fish and wildlife populations. It would also ensure strict adherence to environmental standards during every phase of oil and gas operations.

Such a decision would be a fitting way to begin your tenure as Interior Secretary, signaling not only a new face but a new day, one of careful environmental stewardship. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

[your name]
[your address]
We signed the “Protect millions of wildlife before Sept. 27 – we need you!” petition!
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2:47 pm PDT, Apr 23, Desiree Diaz, Illinois
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2:50 pm PDT, Apr 21, Pamela White, North Carolina
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3:30 pm PDT, Apr 20, Becky Visco, Texas
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2:34 pm PDT, Apr 20, Cynthia Parker, Virginia
stop you are supposed to be helping us not hurting us
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7:33 pm PDT, Apr 19, Amanda L, Florida
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1:34 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania
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11:17 am PDT, Apr 12, Jenny Vegan, United States Minor Outlying Islands
Please stop pillaging our planet.
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9:51 am PDT, Apr 12, Lauren Langan, Pennsylvania
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5:26 pm PDT, Apr 6, Natalie Swaim, Iowa
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1:09 am PDT, Apr 6, Can Atik, Turkey
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12:03 am PDT, Apr 6, Laurel Watson, Arizona
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9:45 am PDT, Apr 3, Ashley Reynolds, Utah
Our children's children should experience wildlife and wilderness at this rate there won't be any if we continue like this. PROTECT!
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3:49 pm PDT, Mar 30, Silky Wyld, Wisconsin
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11:59 pm PDT, Mar 29, Audrey Russell, Pennsylvania
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10:46 am PDT, Mar 24, Maggie Solum, Illinois
People NEED to realize that our earth needs the protection!! Just because WE think we NEED to sell and build on land, doesn't mean it's the right thing. It might bring in money now, but in the long run we're going to suffer so much more. These animals need the space way more than we do.
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